2026 William T. Peterson: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	67	1636	598	216	13415

Overview

William T. Peterson was affiliated with the National Marine Fisheries Service in the United States. Their research primarily contributed to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's main topics of work included Marine and fisheries research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Underwater Acoustics Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Marine and coastal ecosystems.

William T. Peterson published research in several venues, most notably in Progress In Oceanography and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Their recent papers are:

Comparison of condition metrics and lipid content between Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera in the northern California Current, USA (2020), Progress In Oceanography
Cohort analysis of Euphausia pacifica from the Northeast Pacific population using a Gaussian mixture model (2020), Progress In Oceanography
Capturing copepod dynamics in the Northern California Current using sentinel stations (2021), Progress In Oceanography
Spatially gridded cross-shelf hydrographic sections and monthly climatologies from shipboard survey data collected along the Newport Hydrographic Line, 1997-2021 (2022), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Spatially gridded cross-shelf hydrographic sections and monthly climatologies from shipboard survey data collected along the Newport Hydrographic Line, 1997-2021 (2022), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Throughout their career, William T. Peterson collaborated frequently with several researchers including:

Jennifer L. Fisher
Cheryl A. Morgan
C. Tracy Shaw
Leah R. Feinberg
Craig M. Risien

Best Publications

Emergence of Anoxia in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem

F. Chan;J. A. Barth;J. Lubchenco;A. Kirincich

776
Citations
A new climate regime in northeast pacific ecosystems

William T. Peterson;Franklin B. Schwing

559
Citations
The effect of temperature on the gut clearance rate constant of planktonic copepods

Hans G. Dam;William T. Peterson

357
Citations
Seabirds as indicators of marine ecosystems

John F. Piatt;William J. Sydeman;Francis Wiese

315
Citations
Copepod hatching success in marine ecosystems with high diatom concentrations

Xabier Irigoien;Roger P. Harris;Hans M. Verheye;Pierre Joly

297
Citations
Massive Mortality of a Planktivorous Seabird in Response to a Marine Heatwave

Timothy Jones;Julia K. Parrish;William T. Peterson;Eric P. Bjorkstedt

276
Citations
Copepod biodiversity as an indicator of changes in ocean and climate conditions of the northern California current ecosystem

Rian C. Hooff;William T. Peterson

253
Citations
Zonation and maintenance of copepod populations in the Oregon upwelling zone

William T. Peterson;Charles B. Miller;Anne Hutchinson

238
Citations
The pelagic ecosystem in the Northern California Current off Oregon during the 2014–2016 warm anomalies within the context of the past 20 years

William T. Peterson;Jennifer L. Fisher;P. Ted Strub;Xiuning Du

216
Citations
Zooplankton species composition is linked to ocean transport in the Northern California Current

J. E. Keister;E. Di Lorenzo;C. A. Morgan;V. Combes

200
Citations
Synthesis of Pacific Ocean Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics

Emanuele Di Lorenzo;Vincent Combes;Julie E. Keister;P. Ted Strub

196
Citations
What Caused the Sacramento River Fall Chinook Stock Collapse

Steven T. Lindley;Churchill B. Grimes;Michael S. Mohr;William Thornton Peterson

192
Citations
The nearshore zone during coastal upwelling: Daily variability and coupling between primary and secondary production off central Chile

William T Peterson;Dagoberto F Arcos;George B McManus;Hans Dam

192
Citations
River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems: Introduction and synthesis

B. M. Hickey;R. M. Kudela;J. D. Nash;K. W. Bruland

185
Citations
Life cycle strategies of copepods in coastal upwelling zones

W Peterson

180
Citations
The effects of the 1997-99 El Nino/La Nina events on hydrography and zooplankton off the central Oregon coast

W.T. Peterson;J.E. Keister;L.R. Feinberg

176
Citations
Climatic regulation of the neurotoxin domoic acid

S. Morgaine McKibben;William Peterson;A. Michelle Wood;Vera L. Trainer

173
Citations
Interannual variability in copepod community composition at a coastal station in the northern California Current: a multivariate approach

William T. Peterson;Julie E. Keister

171
Citations
Zooplankton anomalies in the California Current system before and during the warm ocean conditions of 2005

D. L. Mackas;W. T. Peterson;M. D. Ohman;B. E. Lavaniegos

166
Citations
Copepod egg production, moulting and growth rates and secondary production in the Skagerrak in August 1988

William T. Peterson;Peter Tiselius;Thomas Kiørboe

160
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Brodeur Oregon State University

Patricia A. Wheeler Oregon State University

Steven J. Bograd National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Franklin B. Schwing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

William J. Sydeman Farallon Institute

Evelyn B. Sherr Oregon State University

Ralf Goericke Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Barry F. Sherr Oregon State University

John L. Largier University of California, Davis

Robert M. Suryan National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

External Links

Personal website of William T. Peterson

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